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In March last year Mr Smith discovered his girlfriend, 43-year-old Lisa Crabtree, a mother of three, dead in a bathtub in their Liskeard home.

Ms Crabtree’s family, including her father Barry Crabtree, believed Mr Smith bore some responsibility for her drug-related death. However a police investigation concluded that there was no criminal wrongdoing on his part.

An inquest in August heard that over several hours leading up to her death, Mr Smith had filmed her "crawling about and falling over while being in a right state".

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The couple had taken a heroin hit in the morning on the day of her death, but argued later on about her using Valium.

The family of Lisa Crabtree were still waiting for answers a year after her death (Image: Barry Crabtree)

At the inquest hearing in Truro, Mr Smith said it was Ms Crabtree who ran the bath. He claimed that after spending an hour on the phone with his sister, he then went to check on her but found her dead under the water before pulling her out and calling the emergency services for help.

But Mr Crabtree said he did not believe she would have been able to get up the stairs and run a bath for herself in the state she was in, given what Mr Smith's filming of her showed.

Police at the scene where Andrew Smith's body was found on Friday

He contended that instead of filming her, Mr Smith should have called the emergency services earlier, and that he shouldn't have left her alone in the bath.

Mr Crabtree filed a complaint about the police investigation through the Independent Office for Police Conduct ( formerly the Independent Police Complaints Commission), and said he was still waiting to hear the outcome.

Barry Crabtree with is daughter Lisa (Image: Barry Crabtree)

Mr Crabtree said that while Mr Smith’s death brought him a degree of closure, it did not bring justice.

“We got told about the death on Friday,” he said. “Police found him in the woods near Derriford (Hospital), which is shocking. It's a sad circumstance but it’s just closure now for me and my family. We’re relieved because it feels like payback, karma.

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“We had to get an injunction on him and everything because he was threatening to do family cars, he abused me and our family in the streets. He was not a very nice man.

“But we’re angry. We feel like we’ve been robbed. We’re not happy about not getting proper justice.

“We’ve been fighting Lisa’s case for months and I feel angry with the police because nothing was done, nothing was finalised. But that’s all gone out of the window now, really [because of Mr Smith’s death].”